Wayne Miller

Colorado, United States

Member Since: 08/01/2002


Wayne Miller is the author of six poetry collections, most recently We the Jury (Milkweed, 2021) and The End of Childhood, which Milkweed will publish in 2025. His awards include the UNT Rilke Prize, two Colorado Book Awards, a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Translation Fellowship, six individual awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, and a Fulbright to Northern Ireland. He has co-translated two books by Moikom Zeqo—most recently Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015), which was shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation—and he has coedited three books, most recently Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed, 2016). He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, co-directs the Unsung Masters Series, and edits Copper Nickel.

Website: onlythesenses.com

Twitter Username: @coppernickel


Publications

  • We the Jury , Milkweed Editions (March 2021)
  • Post- , Milkweed Editions (April 2016)
  • Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Coeditor) , Milkweed Editions (April 2016)
  • Zodiac (Cotranslator) , Zephyr Press (December 2015)
  • The City, Our City , Milkweed Editons (September 2011)
  • Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (Coeditor) , Pleiades Press/Unsung Masters (June 2011)
  • The Book of Props , Milkweed Editions (March 2009)
  • New European Poets (Coeditor) , Graywolf Press (March 2008)
  • I Don't Believe in Ghosts (Cotranslator) , BOA Editions (November 2007)
  • Only the Senses Sleep , New Issues (January 2006)

Employment

  • Editor at Copper Nickel (August 2014 - )
  • Professor at University of Colorado Denver (August 2014 - )
  • Editor at Pleiades (2002 - 2014)

Degrees

  • Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from University of Houston (2002)

Genres of Interest

Poetry